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Dance With the Harmonies Within

Insights Of A Deeper Song

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(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

In stillness you will hear it.  In nature, you will be aware of it.  Your intuition is one of its voices. We each have harmonies within us, and we are each to play our own tune to those harmonies.  

But first we listen.

Wha is the rhythm of your day? If you have control over the rhythm, what do you want it to be – how fast, how slow, how stimulating, how restful?  We get to choose our rhythm and we use our inner voice to hear the harmonies within us and respond to them.

There is structure in the harmonies we hear within.  There is a beginning, a middle  and an end. There is a crescendo and a decrescendo.  There is phasing with alternating soft notes and bright notes, fast notes and slow notes. We have but to listen and we will be able to dance to our inner harmony.  

We are to find our own balance. We cannot dance jigs all day, and we need to cultivate moments of stillness, of awareness, of inner peace.  We need balance in our inner rhythms. 

We are to write our own composition each day.   We are to compose our own score and we are to perform our unique composition.  

How do you choose the tone for tour day?  Do you wake up with time to luxuriate in preparing your body for its day, time to meditate, or move your body in gratitude for its strength?  Perhaps you put those experiences later in your day.  Where you put them is not as important as that you do indeed find time for these rhythms of self-care – the inner and the outer.  

Breath sets the tone, the rhythm, the mood.  It is a way to find stillness and centeredness in a given moment. Get in the habit of taking several conscious, centering breaths after completing a task and before tuning to a new one.  Perhaps identify specific times during your day when you tun and look out the window at be with nature, even if all you can see is a little sky and a wandering cloud.   Take a moment to be that cloud, floating carefree in space.  Perhaps pause for a mindful stretching of your body to remind it of its strength and power and flexibility.  We get to sprinkle these moments of centering throughout your day.  Where are you putting your moments of serenity,  your moments of awareness, a pause to honor your body?  Each moment spent on self-centering creates more balance in all other areas of your day.  Begin with breathing. Use mindful breathing to find stillness. Then see what is suggested from that quiet place.

Pay attention to what you are to leave out, what you need to add, and notice how replenishing the steps you do take are. Adjust as desired. 

It takes only a moment of stillness to open the door to the new awareness.  Choose those moments often and see how differently your day unfolds. 

We begin with our senses in mindful stillness.  What do you want your day to feel like, to look like?  What are those experiences for you?  I want today to be a series of flowing and southing energies that leave in their wake great productivity of enormously unique quality. You know, start with the simple stuff. 

Move into stillness. After I capture that first draft I can move into stillness. After reading my email I can pause to breathe and center myself for my day.  I can pause and tune into my inner self and see what calls to me to do next.   When I leave my desk for a break I thank my inner self for its creativity and guidance and for encouraging me to be ready for the next cycle of movement and choice. 

Listen to what you are given, what thoughts, what ideas what new circumstances.  Contemplate them, observe them, adjust them, and see where and how and if you want to add any of them to your day.  

I am going to add more still points in m day, each time I sit at my desk I will pause to ask my inner voice what I am to do next.   Each time I stop what I am doing, I offer gratitude for what has unfolded so far.  I just sit and listen and receive and then I act.  That’s how I listen to my inner voice. That’s how I listen to the Harmonies within.  That’s how I dance my inner calling.  I move to my still point and listen.

In a shamanic journey, my guide said, “ Listen within. Listen to the harmonies within, the structure within, the balance within.  And write your own musical score. Rehearse it, strengthen it  Perform it.”  

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I consciously take moments to move within during my day and make choices from the wisdom and insights it offers.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Notice the moments of stillness you have created in our day. 
  • Notice how you feel when you move into that stillness with a deeper awareness. 
  • Add moments of purposeful contemplation to find our point of stillness.  Let everything else be laid aside.  Simply be.  Go where your inner voice takes you. 
  • Pause for moments of thoughtful awareness throughout your day. 

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

An Exploration of the Unseen World

If you have ever felt powerless, you need to understand how to send energy outside of time and space – to the past – to the future – to the present – to pave the way or heal the wounds or simply gain clarity in the moment.

In this episode we explore

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

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Inner Work

DEEPEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD

I’ve been a vegetarian for 40 years and a vegan for 8.  I know to give thanks for the people who grow the food and the people who brought it to me, but I’m going to add another ritual to my meal preparation – a ritual of asking permission. 

The Indian cultures know to bless the spirit of the animal that gives its life for their food and shelter.  I don’t know for certain, but I imagine they blessed a tree before they cut it down for a fire or a structure. They are very attuned to the voices of nature. I have often thought about the spirit of a plant. I know they heal us.  I know they are willing to be made into other things like a tree becomes a house and a branch becomes a native flute. But I have never created a ritual around consuming a living plant in order to simply nourish myself. 

I’m not even certain what it wold look like, but I like the idea.

It is about transforming energy so I might thank my carrot or my tomato for its willingness to transform its energy into my energy and perhaps share with it what we will do together.  Food wants to be useful too.

I’m going to make some potato soup today.  I will thank the potato and the onions and whatever else I put into it and perhaps even tell them the plans I have for the energy we create together. 

How will you honor the food you eat?

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Outer Work

CHOOSE TO CHANGE

We have an outstanding opportunity in this changing environment to reposition ourselves.  Who do you want to serve?  What do they need that you can offer?  How effective is this choice?

Who do you want to serve? 

Do you want beginner or advanced?  That’s a huge first choice.  I want to move pro-active, curious, evolved people forward so we both travel together. Do you want to work with people who are struggling, or people at a timing point to success, or help successful people fly higher?  What do you want to help people do?

What do they need that you can offer?  

I personally want to keep exploring the Unseen World so that’s what I want to share. I have written a lot of posts and podcasts on personal growth concepts so I have begun a curation segment in this newsletter to support that part of our journey.  And I have to keep an eye on the changing world and see what I need to address there.   

How can you help? What do they need what do you want to provide? 

How effective is this choice?

We also want to earn money in all this.  So part of our decision for the kind of change we will make, is how it provides the basics we need.  How has your idea of “basics” changed right now? 

Go exploring

As we deal with this evolving change, new businesses are goiter to appear.  Some businesses are going to no longer exist.  As New  York Governor Andrew Como said, “Think outside the box. There is no box.”

What would your like your world to look like?  How do you see your role?

But most of all, who do you want to serve? Begin there.

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TRAVELER 

By Antonio Machado

TRAVELER – Video

Traveler, your footsteps are the road

There is nothing more. 

Traveler there is no road

The road is made by walking. 

Walking makes the road.

And if you turn around you only see the path you can never walk again.

Traveler, there is no road, only a trace of foam upon the sea.

Shared by Deeper Song Community Member Mary Elaine Kiener, RN, PhD

As a person with a lot of footsteps behind her, this poem made me cry.  We have only this moment and this one.  This is where we live, not back there, or in what’s ahead. The past is dissolving behind us and we have only to choose our next step.  

Step with awarenss.  Step with purity of choice.  That next step is what matters most.  It becomes your path.

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WHEN THE TIMING IS RIGHT

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.  Trust that.  Look around at what is showing up and see if it is for you.  If it is the right time for you to explore that particular direction. 

Exploring is a key step to moving forwards and it has to go hand in hand with discernment.  Does this really call to you?  Does this call deeply enough to you?  DO I already have enough knowledge on that particular subject? 

I mentioned that last year I thought sound healing was going to be an emphasis for me.  It’s not, it is only a part of what I do now.   Trust the evolution of your interest. Study what calls to you and periodically pause to see where that path has led you and see if it is still going the dire ion you want to go.  

And look for your next teacher.  She/he is ready when you are ready. 

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CONSIDER THIS

Meet Beyond Our Differences

You Are Never Separate

Your Duty is to Be

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FIND THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM  

The copy for the class said, “Tight hamstrings and weak hip flexors are the cause of many people’s lower back problems and body stiffness, but it’s also the area that many people overlook when stretching.”

I realized that for all the fussing I’ve been doing about my posture, I had not focused on the core weakness.  It changed my approach to correcting my posture.

What is out of balance in your life or your body?  What is the cause of your imbalance? It is not going to be the obvious, it’s going to call for deeper exploration. 

I actually know where the hip flexors and hamstrings are.  They play a strong roll in the mobility of your hips.  I’m not going to take this class because it calls for a mat and I can barely do bed yoga, but I will go exploring and find moves I can do.  

Give change time to manifest.  This course also called for 15 minutes a day fo exercise.  That undoubtedly means warm-up and challenge and cool down.  It’s the ask-more-of-your body part that I need to do better at doing.  

Strengthen your foundation.  Strengthen your core.  Whether it is your body or a skill set you need for your work, get better at it.  Keep learning, keep practicing, keep challenging yourself. 

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THOROUGHLY PLEASING

In Chris Brogan’s newsletter, he wrote, “Imagine thoroughly pleasing several hundred people. Or a thousand. And that being enough.”

I really like the idea of “thoroughly pleasing” a few hundred people.  I feel I am doing that and that allows me to take you on an ever-deepening journey.  I get to listen and respond to you and let newcomers come in as they are called to a particular aspect.  

“Thoroughly pleasing.”   That means shining light on your path that helps you see all the possibilities. It means offering you tools that make the journey easier.  It means exploring various side roads and reporting back in case you too are interested.  It means that whatever I offer enriches your life experience and offers you insights that raise your sights and their expectations.

“And let that be enough.”   

That shifts my focus.  Rather than focusing on the task of drawing more people in, I get to focus on where I  am guiding the people who have found me.  It makes me feel content and joyous that I am touching the lives I am meant to in a meaningful way. 

How are you “thoroughly pleasing” the people you serve?

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DO THE NEXT RIGHT THING

When you come up against a stuck place, stop, take a deep breath, and do the next right things.  

What are your choices?   What are you to do?  Not what looks like will happen, but what is present, in front of you rings now.  Do you leave? Do you stay?  Do you let go?  Do you draw it closer? Do you simply go within and wait until an answer appears?

What is the next right thing for you to do?

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YOUR PANDEMIC HOBBY

What are you doing with all this time you now have? Or this rearranged time you now have?  Do you have a new hobby? Are you following a longed-for passion?

My passion is not cooking but I am working on upgrading how I feed myself. 

I am improving my mind by continuing to get better at editing in GarageBand. 

I am nurturing my inner self in many ways – my flutes in particular.

I could read some of those books that await me.  I could learn to use my phone better and my tablet.  I could sketch my journeys more often.  

What do you want to learn? It doesn’t make any difference what the outcome is, learning is the fun part.

Is there some hobby you want to share with those you live with?  Build a bird house and paint it. Learn to knit. Or crochet. Or bake. Or can.  It doesn’t have to be practical, it just has to be about learning something new. 

I’m glad I can entertain myself with my mind. We have stellar times together.

What new skills do you want to develop? I remember watching about 20 hours of tutorial on creating a podcast by Pat Flynn. (He still offers it)  I recently watched videos on editing in GarageBand and chair exercises for hip flexors.  I could learn to listen to an audiobook. I’m very much a visual learner but maybe I could actually listen to a fictional story for a change.  That would be novel.  

I have over 150 crystals that would all love to talk to me individually.  I want to create some new patterns around cleaning and exercising.  And reaching my point of stillness, and connecting with nature and…

How are you entertaining yourself with this new pattern of time?

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

How to Master the Ancient Art of Walking Meditation in Modern Life

Plant Medicine for Modern Epidemics Summit– at no charge: Augusts 24-28.

Talk about change: Stylish Tiny Homes Are Now Being 3D-Printed In 24 Hours And Shipped to Your Site

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IS YOUR WORK MEANINGFUL?

Or is it just a paycheck?  Whatever your work, it needs to nurture you and nourish you and motivate you and inspire you and give you a sense of accomplishment when it is complete.

Don’t settle.  I moved to New  York with what I thought was an intention to pursue theater. That meant I did temp work so in case I got acting work, I could leave.  Boy was that about settling.  I could type 80 words a minute (that’s fast) but all I was doing was copying someone else’s work.  No, it was not satisfying.  It was not until I begin to learn energy work like Reiki that my life took on great meaning, regardless of how I brought in the income. 

Follow your heart. This is an incredible, and very challenging time to find the work of your heart.  

What will you do to make your work more meaningful?

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

Use what you have. Because this is senior housing we have access to a food bank delivery once a month.  We never know what will be delivered. I get big bags of apples and potatoes and onions.  I have to get creative on how I use them. 

I am going to make soups and freeze them. I am going to make chop up vegetable combinations for stir-fries and freeze those.  That means that I have to spend some time chopping and freezing but I will be able to use it all.

So here’s what I am learning.  Applesauce can be made with three ingredients in 25 minutes and it can be frozen!!!!  All I have to do is spend an hour chopping up this with bag of apples and I’m set. 

The point is that when you take time to get creative and put in  little time you will save a LOT of money.  

Explore your seasonings and cook with what appeals to you.  Chop and freeze so you have a good selection.  

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KEEP PRACTICING

One thing about practicing, you get better at what you are doing.  In one day, this week, I recored two podcasts and edited one.  I would have edited two but I hit some button I should not have in Garage Band and had to go study some tutorials. It thankfully self-corrected when I opened up garage Band a second time.  However,  I have no clue what to do if it happens again beause I have no idea what I did to cause it.  I’ll just be more careful when I set it up and push only the buttons I know.  

The sense of accomplishment was huge.  I am ahead of my scheduled.  That takes some pressure off.  So I will keep planing on doubling up on recording and editing.

I recored better so the editing is easier.  As the speaker I have learned to make a clear pause around a mistake because as an editor, space gives me room to edit.

Be patient with yourself but keep on practicing.  It does get easier – and easier.  

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DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

The Yoga practice of alternate nostril breathing (Nadi Shodhana) offers instant centering and calmness. 

  • Sit up straight, eyes closed, and close your right nostril with your right thumb.
  • Slowly inhale through your left nostril.
  • Close your left nostril with your ring finger and briefly pause.
  • Open your right nostril, and release your breath slowly through the right side.
  • Pause at the bottom of the exhale and then repeat on the right side.
  • Alternate this breathing pattern, 5-10 cycles.

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THE REFLECTING POOL

The Master allows things to happen. 

She shapes events as they come. 

She steps out of the way and 

lets the Tao speak for itself.

   -Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell @quotes

“Shapes events as they come” is an interesting way to live.  It’s about allowing life to unfold, opportunities to present themselves for options, and a deep trust that whatever shows up is exactly right. Can you step aside and let life unfold?

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CARA’S CORNER

Nurture Stillness in Your life

“Nurture” means “to care for, to encourage growth.” How do nurture stillness in our life?

How do you experience stillness?  

You stop what you are doing.  You quiet your mind, perhaps with long long slow breaths and you turn and look out at nature.  And emerge yourself in that ebb and flow that is at the core of everything.

Stillness is about being still but it can also be a moment to change your rhythm.  For instance, I often stop to play my flutes.  Their vibration centers me.  I look out the window and play to the branches of my birch treen dancing in the wind.

I may take a shamanic journey to listen more closely to my voice within. 

Lately, I have learned to go deeper.  It has come with practice and a willingness to let go of what I am doing and what I am thinking.  In particular, for me, it means to quiet my mind. 

I use a series of quieting conscious beaches.  Focusing on my breath quiets my mind and my body.

The secret is to do a centering process often during your day. Sometimes that means a change in activities, sometimes it means the prompt is the hands on the clock. The catch is to remember to do it – to pause, to notice where you are, and to connect with our place in nature.  

I plan to get better at this. I keep looking for reminders. I keep experimenting with how to achieve that inner stillness.  

Stop now and breathe in to the court of 5, hold for a count of 5 and exhale for a count of five.  Repeat 3-5 times until you have stilled your awareness of the world and are firmly centered in stillness. 

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A DEEPER SONG 

I’m a candle. Light comes out as I burn.” – Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

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How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

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How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

An Exploration of the Unseen World

If you have ever felt powerless, you need to understand how to send energy outside of time and space – to the past – to the future – to the present – to pave the way or heal the wounds or simply gain clarity in the moment.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

(20 minutes)

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The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

The Power of Being in Intentional Space

How to Open Space for Change

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

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How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

An Exploration of the Unseen World

As a Reiki Master Teacher, I know how to direct energy outside of time and space. We use symbols.  

But why do I need symbols?  Those are human tools.  Energy is everywhere. Energy is all there is. We just want to figure out how to focus and direct energy to expand and deepen our insights and awareness. 

We do it through our intention.

We have much more power than we realize. There is power in our words,  there is power in our thoughts, there is power in our actions. We can change the trajectory of our life by working outside the limitation of time and space. 

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode we’re going to explore How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

I need to feel empowered.  I need to feel I can contribute to the calming of the chaos of the world. I don’t mean to keep bringing up my age but at 87 my form of activism needs to be a bit subtle.  Powerful, of course, but distributed in a more serene manner.  So I work on the inner plane.

There is nothing between me and all Energy. Everything is energy.  I am, you are, we are, it is, they are.  All one energy. So it’s easy to embrace the concept of sending energy outside of this human restrictive concept we call time, this restriction we call space. 

We have immediate access to the Unseen World and its gifs and guidance.   

First you see the need, 

Then you set the intention

Then you personalize your  way of sending energy outside of time and space.

Let’s start with the belief that this is possible. I have dry macular degeneration which means there is gradual cloudiness building up at the back of my eyes.  Western medicine says it can’t be healed.  What they are actually saying is they don’t know HOW to heal it.   Be careful of the beliefs that can limit your self-healing and your belief in your own power. 

So I have gone through the human process –  why me, I’m a writer,  I need my eyes to do my work.

But the bottom line is that I have to find a way to BELIEVE that my eyes can be healed.

I believe they can be healed.  I just don’t know how yet. 

I have some work to do.  I have to change my own belief system  I have to believe it is possible and I have to do some energy work.  

Once you identify what you want to change, you set about change it.  Now here’s the caveat.  You send energy for the highest good, the best outcome, and leave it to the Unseen World to do what is needed. 

I don’t know what that is regarding my eyes.  But I can begin by working on myself.  

Begin by releasing the blockage you have consciously or unconsciously created. 

Whether you can identify the cause of what is manifesting or not, you want to metaphorically and metaphysically release the blockage.  Dissolve it  Eliminate it.  That alone will create change. 

You don’t need to know where that blockage is, or the cause of what is manifesting in your life. You don’t need to know if it is from your ancient lineage or if it is a part of what you agreed to do during this lifetime.  Your intention is to release it.

In shamanism, there is a process called cord-cutting. It is a metaphorical releasing of known and unknown cords that are holding us back or keeping us from rising higher.  

I have had shamanic sessions in which there was a lot cord-cutting – cutting the energy brought forth from past lives, past experiences.  I don’t need to know what the cords stand for, I just know that the Shamanic practitioner saw them and cut them.   And I got better. 

We’re talking metaphors here, human-based metaphors for releasing energy or clearing energy, for changing the manifestation of energy in our human form. 

I believe my words create my reality so I am very careful about what I think and the words I speak – they must be positive, affirmative so that what I create is what I want. 

The first step in directing energy outside of time and space is to set an intention

What we focus on we get.  What we believe will happen happens.  So the very first step in sending energy outside of time and space is to set an intention.  Not for a specific outcome, but for wholeness and balance or even guidance.

Think about a time you set an intention and it happened.  I have an odd share around setting an intention and having it manifest.  In college, there was a cute blond boy I wanted to date.  I set that intuition and it happened.  The bummer part was that he was cute but not very interesting…

Be purposeful and specific with your intentions…

We get hints from the Universe about the steps we are to take. When we act, when we follow that guidance from the unseen world, interesting opportunities begin to manifest – more doors open or unexpected ideas show up that take us to levels we had not even dreamed of.

Focus on change. Choose change, act as if that change has already occurred, and watch it happen.

You send energy to raise the vibration, to bring the object of your focus to wholeness – or raise it to be closer to wholeness than it was.  You do not try to manipulate or even manifest a specific outcome  You send in the vibration of wholeness and let the situation balance out in the most wholistic manner for the greater good of all.

After you set your intention  you personalize your way of sending energy outside of time and space.

You can send whoiling energy to the present

I remember a time during my Reiki training when I had a test.  I had gone to great pains to send positive energy ahead to that test experience.  Then the test got moved up in time.  I happen to mention to a fellow student that I had sent the energy for later that day and she said, “Don’t worry the energy will find you.” 

There is no time or space in the world of Energy. There simply is. All energy is s always available in the present moment  

Yes, send intentional energy ahead to a surgery or birth or a situation or….whatever… even if you don’t know where or when it will take place, – the energy will be there because there is no time or space in the Unseen World. 

That means you can also send energy to Past

Sending wholing energy to the past is an interesting idea. It opens up all manner of possibilities. I remember teaching an online class in which there was a five-minute segment on forgiveness mixed in with an hour of other ideas. But that 5 minutes on forgiveness resonated with one of the students and the next week in class she shared that she had contacted her father whom she had not spoken to in 15 years and they had even made arrangements to meet. 

When the time is right the answer will appear. And you just may be the one to provide it.   

Forgiveness is probably one of the more impactful things you do to change the present.  You can send energy back in the past to help heal the present.  I sometimes had a hard time with my other – she was very critical of some of the choices I made as an adult.  I have a theory about that – I did things she would have liked to do that her generation was not taught to do or allowed to do. But I also realized that in that same desire to break out of the stenotype of her time, she gave me some very awesome opportunities.  

We all try.  Sometimes it is more impactful in ways we did not expect. Perhaps it is not so much forgiveness that is called for,  but understanding. 

I made some choices that were very unusual and slightly dramatic in my 40’s and I know they definitely impacted lives ower that mine in terms of what and who I left behind and what and who I tried to impact.  I also know it was the best decision I made in my life and is the reason I am who I am today and as deeply in service as I am.

But I can send energy back to that time to heal and balance and release, but I can’t change it.  I can only trust that intentional energy sent to the past will heal the wounds I may have caused by the choices I made, or the experiences that manifested because of my actions,  Lives were changed – including mine. And I would not change that choice one bit.

Send energy to the Future to unblock the way forward or even affect the outcome. 

There is an understanding that timelines are parallel so we can easily send energy to the future.  I sent energy ahead to the future me ten years from now and when we connected, she was doing jumping jacks!  Now I’m 87 and have not done jumping jacks for a very long time so what’s going on ten years from now!!!  But hey, I have a relationship started with my future self. And jumping jacks as a metaphor for what is possible.  

You can send energy ahead to something you are going to experience in the future – a surgery, a test, a job interview.  It’s as simple as sending forth positive vibrational energy – visualizing the situation surrounded by positive energy. There’s no ready you can’t put up a Transformative Shield of Protection if that seems appropriate.

In New work City in the 60’s I  remember coming out of an EST seminar at 1:30 in the morning. There were no cabs so I decided to walk the 12 blocks to my apartment. I started out and then I realized that it was a really dumb idea – to be walking home alone in the middle of the night in NYC even if it was the Upper West Side.  But I started sending energy ahead – I saw myself walking through a protective tunnel of light.  I saw only one other person on the street and he was walking on the other side of the street and going as fast as I was.  

I have been known to prepare to take a road trip and set up a safe tunnel of light for me to drive through all the way. Or fly through.

Personalize your  way of sending energy outside of time and space.

Your intention is the cornerstone of directing energy outside of time and space.  But you can make it more tangible for yourself in many ways.  If I see some disturbing news on television I hold my palm toward the set and set an intentionally send whiling energy to the highest good for all concerned.  

If I see a person in distress, I may put my hand on my heart thought my intentions, and send him or her heart energy.

I can create an intention that my focused look carries with it positive energy.  

Get creative. Know you have the power to send energy outside of time and space and get to work!

You can use the Law of Correspondence to focus your intention. 

The Law of Correspondence says you can have one thing represent another.  For instance, if I want to send restorative energy to my eyes, I can put my hands to my face.  Or, I can choose an object to represent my eyes and simply hold that and direct my intentions there.  I can choose to use whatever calls to me to apply the Law of Correspondence.  It could be a round rubber ball, it could be a piece of string, it could be a place on my ow knee that I hold to represent my eyes.  It can be a crystal.  You choose. I have a fabric hug-a-planet that I can cradle or put my hands on a particular country to send energy.  

If I were in a difficult conversational exchange with someone, I could create a subtle gesture of correspondence,  like wrapping my finger around my thumb to send positive, uplifting energy to the situation.  Or I could just sit and send the energy with my intention. 

Use your intuition and creativity to direct energy outside of time and space.

Be aware that it can be done.

Star looking at what you want to send energy to.

Start doing it

Do not direct the outcome

When you send energy ahead you send to the highest good of all.  There is a MUCH greater plan than we can even begin to comprehend, so a situation here on earth may seem like it is going the wrong direction, but we, here in our limited body expression have no idea what that grander expression is going to be or is mean to be.  

Send e to the highest good.  The most positive outcome. And trust.

First, know that you can direct energy outside of time and space.  Then do it  – for the highest good of all. 

Then trust. 

Repeat as needed.

Think on that and see where it leads you.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast. 
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts or this podcast and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

The Other Person’s Shoes

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The Other Person’S Shoes

Insights OF A Deeper Song

Living our Light

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I sit here safely tucked in and have no clue what it feels like to be running out of food, or facing eviction. I cannot imagine being a black woman driving her car, being stopped by the police with guns drawn, and have my children put into handcuffs. I have not experienced being crowded into a multi-generational home with no privacy and no space to express myself.  

So what do I do? I shake my head and my heart is sad and…what?  It feels huge, much greater than I am capable of healing.

Some of my oblivion comes from being unaware, particularly as I was younger.  But even now, I am sheltered from the world at large.

I don’t know if I’m supposed to watch more news so I stay informed or shut out the news from all the really off-balance things that it portrays.

I have always had what I need in my lifetime.  I do not know what it means to be in need.

We each have our particular place to serve.  I was never much of a hands-on helper, I was more of an organizing idea provider.  I get to notice that and be OK with that.  But if I’m an idea person I get to put that gift to work for the greater good.

How?

We are in the process of learning to raise our vibration.  Not all of us will do it.  Not all of us are meant to do it.  But it is neither an honor, a bad thing, a privilege, or a punishment. It simply is. It is part of a grand over-arching pattern we, as humans, do not understand.

So I work on my inner world. I work with my inner voice. I experiment and I discover and I share it in a post or a podcast.  

And I expand my spiritual practice.  I add more intentional ritual.  I work to evolve a deeper connection to the earth so I hear her rhythm and align myself with her vibration – her requests of me. 

I meditate in the form of shamanic journeys. I create rituals of intentions. I hold high watch for those of us who are working to raise our vibration so that we experience success and raise ourselves to a new level of awareness and service. 

We have to walk with determination in our own shoes.  We have to walk our own path with as much awareness and thoughtfulness as we can muster. There are others walking beside us and we can hold our light high to light our mutual path, but each person has to walk in their own shoes and do it the best they can.  

Fill your own shoes well. Then reach out a helping hand.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I walk my path as steadily as I can and hold my light high to show others a way. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look closely at your own path and how you are walking on it.  Are you r standing upright?  Are you moving forward?  How bright is your light?
  • Let your light expand to the hearts and minds of those around you, lending a helping hand when you are called, and send light energy to others to light their way.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

An Inner-World Exploration

In order to shift, realign, and rebalance our world, we must each deepen our awareness of that all-encompassing vibrational core, that one creative, generating, void energy and know and feel ourselves to be just that – one energy. 

(Read more…)

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Inner Work

DO YOU JURNAL?

I write to figure things out, to see how I want to apply what I have learned or how or even if I am to apply them.  That’s what journals do, they help you sort out your thoughts and ideas and feelings and intuitions. 

When you write down a thought, it is safely captured and that frees you to look beneath that thought, to look more deeply into the next level of the message.  

You can journal by hand or on your computer.  You can dictate it to your computer if that feels right to you. (Just remember to say, “period” or you will have a major run-on mess.) Your journal might include some acknowledgment to yourself for what you accomplished. It may be a thoughtful review of an experience you had or a step you took that felt very aligned.  It’s not a to-do list, it is an acknowledgment of your awareness, of your progress, and a desire to understand what lies below the surface, to hear your inner voice more clearly.

I stop often during my day to write about an awareness I have experienced, a message I received in a journey a thought I want to explore.  I capture it so I can look at it at a time when I am prepared to explore it more thoughtful and perhaps even to take action.  

Go within and explore and examine the messages of your day. Then, write them down for clarity and contemplation.

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Outer Work

BE SELECTIVE

This month be a good month to tidy up your to-do list, perhaps unsubscribe to those emails you no longer need.  

It is a good idea to look at your projects and prioritize them.  Is there an aspect that you can hire done for you?  Do you need some more training? Is there a topic you want to explore?  Look at the rest of the year and see what you need and want to put in place. 

But first, complete or abandon what is no longer relevant.

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PURE WATER

My skin is as soft as silk.  My hair is soft and shiny. My cat is as soft to touch as velvet. And that means we are soft and clear inside as well.  And it’s all beech of the water we drink. I have used a Nikon Water Filter for 25 years.  I actually bought a new one last year but gave my old one away because it’s still extremely usable.  The 

Nikken PiMag Waterfall sits on my kitchen counter in a position for me to fill it from the spray hose on my sink.  It contains a powerful filter and mineral rocks that together improve the water even if it’s from a good water source.  I just wanted you to know it exists.  My cat and I are sitting here as soft as newborns – inside and out. 

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FIND THE RIGHT PLACE

In a journey this week some things were suggested that I want to establish in my life.  I’m to create a moment in which I reach and maintain a point of stillness. How I do that is under exploration.  I want it to be a simple moving within to that point of stillness so I can connect more deeply with it and clarify and apply what I learn there. What if I could figure out how to sit here and become a single point of stillness.  I have experienced that only once in my life. Even the idea makes me deepen my stillness.

What do you want to add to your life as a meditative practice and how will you do that?

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WHAT SERVICES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED?

Our future is now and it sure looks different than yesterday did.  As I think about how we are to each reposition ourselves. I am aware of some services that will be needed less.  Being a tailor, for instance.  If we all stay home in our comfortable clothes we have no need for a tailor – or even much of a variety of clothing.  So what do you do if you love to sew and create things out of fabric?  The fashion industry will take a big hit because of the lack of social events to dress up for.  

And will they come back?  Not to the extent they used to be because our new normal is to work from home.  And that does mean increased work in the technology we barely know about They recently printed a 3-D house in three weeks which with transform the building trade.  What about musicians, people who make their living playing in concerts and on tours, the backstage roles that are part of that business. The timeline for live concerts is rather far off.  What do those people do in the meantime?  How do they reposition themselves to mover forward?

We have each been given a multitude of gifts but it’s the expression of our passion that we seek most.  So I may become a street musician with my guitar case open for donations, but there are no longer theater crowds emerging from the theater district.  What about the actors – it’s hard enough to get work when there is work to be had.  What if you have a passion that is no longer needed in the workplace?

These seem to all be creative examples, artistic examples.  And once you have known full artistic expression, there does not seem to be any sort of substitute for it.  

I don’t have answers here, just more questions. 

I remember years ago in New York City talking to a woman who was called upon to take all of the broadway show cast photos. She was grateful for the income but she said she did not have time to do her own work. Or course not, she was doing commercial work, not self-exploration expression work.  

How do we feed our soul if we are creative? I guest we get very creative….

I can write for the sheer joy of writing but its more rewarding to know I have touched a life or two. 

Work is all so tied up in making a living and what you are suited to do. Work needs to be more than that.

I think of the farm workers who do labor to feed their families.  What happens to a creative child in that environment?  We often go in the direction our parents did, unless someone helps us to go further, to take a path more suited to our individual gifts. 

The point is we each get to rethink and re-examine what we need at our core. And how to get it for ourselves.  

No, wiring commercials is not nearly as rewarding as writing what calls to me.  Playing a song alone is less rewarding than if I can share it with someone and we can play off of eh other’s gifts. Is that the answer, then, to share what you create? Possibly. 

We each have been given several strong gifts.  Now is the time to look closely and get very creative about how we can offer those gifts to bring ourselves personal satisfaction as well as income. 

There is one other major observation around this new how-do-I-make-a-living scenario we are in.  Consume less.  Choose less. Get creative and create our own entertainment.  Remember the game where one person starts a story, gets it to a point of decision or challenge, and then passes it to the next person to continue the story?  That’s a great family adventure. 

Not everyone was cut out to be a parent and yes here we are expecting ourselves to be a focused parent, gifted teacher, reliable workers, and fulfill our own calling.  The lucky children are the ones with smart parents who can teach them at home and support them in their learning.  But even as they do that, they get to rethink about the child’s future – and they get to be evolved choices they will have.  

I remember taking geometry in high school and wondering where I would ever use that.  The first and possibly only time I did was want I was making pleated drapes and had to figure out the spacing and the depth of the pleat and how much material to buy.  But I’m glad I could figure that out. 

Explore as many skills and areas of knowledge that you can. The internet makes it easy.  How can you repurpose what you know?  I have a friend who is a master horticulturist.  She could explore plant healing or make a new hybrid food or…  Take your skill and your passion and shape it into sometime new and usable.  Then offer it to the world.

Be creative  Think creative. Make up you own perfect income stream. 

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INSIGHTS FROM PAST POSTS AND PODCASTS

Set a New Path

HowDoo You Nourish Yourself if You Are a Rock

 Do You Have The Courage to Stand Alone

How to Redefine Yourself and the 30-year Plan 

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

I feel tremendous pride and hope for my country with the inclusion of a very powerful and capable woman, Kamala Harris, as vic- president nominee. She is so capable and well prepared that I am ready for her to go on to be president.  

It is like a door opening, fresh air being let in, and a whole new level of feminine power begin put in place.  Not only is this historic, this is life chaining for this country.   

It’s not jut about placing a woman in power, it is about the change she represents in her awareness.  She is of a younger generation and she is aware, astute, and very ready to govern. 

Change is good.  Change is well, life-chaining.  My country needs so much healing.  Let it begin with these two peacemakers.

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FIND YOUR TRIBE

The lovely thing about having to stay home is that we have to go online to find our interactions with people and that opens up the entire world.  I speak with friends in France and Switzerland, as well as people in the US.  Here’s the caveat – you want to find people that stretch you, that make you think and consider new options for yourself.  People at a similar level in the topic you have in common who are in on a similar life path.  I have several people to talk shamanism with, I have one person to talk computer and web stuff with. Many of my friends are energy healers. One of my most amazing in-person friends is the Social Services Coordinator here at the Senior Center where I live.  We had a great talk just the other day.  We have just a plain ol’ affection for each other. 

I need them all in my life.  

How do you find these friends that resonate with your own path? Begin with an online class you are taking, post on the community FB page and see who responds and reach out to them.  Classes are great ways to find like-minded friends. They have self-selected to show their interest in the topic.  

Look over your past and perhaps reach out to someone who shared a portion of your path with you that you have carried forward.  Only one of the six people I speak with regularly have I met in person.  We use zoom or Skype and it is easy.  And I have recently added frequent emails with a new friend.

Reach out.  Begin with emails. Toss in a call or two and begin to expand your relationship.  Schedule another call before you hang up to keep the momentum going. Like-minded friends are super important for your own personal growth.  Expand our circle.  Reach out.  

Do You Need a New Tribe? (post) 

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CARA’S CORNER

SELF HEALING – SOUND HEALING

I had an extraordinary experience with my flutes this week.  In my flute class with Christine Stevens, we begin to play to our emotions and something we wanted to heal.   Playing with that intention changed my music. 

We played to our home, to bless every corner of it with the sound vibration. 
We played to others.  I played to my sister who has Alzheimer’s and said yet another goodbye to the sister I had.

This playing to an emotion was all done though intention and opening my heart  It was very powerful. 

Now granted, the pentatonic scale of a native flue has no wrong combinations, but there is much you can do with your breath and your tongue and your fingers – and your intention.  But the key to this experience was playing from my heart – in gratitude, in blessing – with purpose.  It took me to a whole new level of self-healing and made me realize how vital and powerful sound healing is.  

I also realized I need to get Christine’s recommended drum app because before the class there was a drumming soundtrack she had made and it expanded my playing to have that rhythm as a counterpoint.

I also have three flutes to choose from and I chose them depending on the intention of the playing. I cried three different times with emotional release from my own life. 

All that from a piece of wood with some holes in it.  
The first known flute was made out of an animal leg bone and the spacing of the holes in the same today.  

Native flutes are made from wood so before we play we have a ritual to honor its connection to the branches which touch the sky and to the earth were their roots reach.  And finally, we connect our flute to our heart which is to be the source of our music.

I write this because I was surprised at the intensity and the ease with which the emotional connection happened. 

Vibration is healing and it takes may forms – especially music. 

How do  you have music in your life?

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A DEEPER SONG

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” -Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

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How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

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How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

An Inner-World Exploration

In order to shift, realign, and rebalance our world, we must each deepen our awareness of that all-encompassing vibrational core, that one creative, generating, void energy, and know and feel ourselves to be just that – one energy.  

That means we become aware that we are one with each animal, each rock, each plant, each body of water, each cloud, the sun and moon, and each person that has manifested on the planet today and in the millions of years before. We are all one – an on-going energy that is consistent, constant and never changing at its core. That is who and what we all are, the spiritual core of One Energy that has temporarily expressed itself as an individual human form.

Radiate wholeness in your spiritual practice 

We increase our personal vibration when we use our spiritual practice to consciously embrace this concept of everything being one vibrational energy. 

We experience our oneness. Then we begin to listen to our one voice, our one, unified vibration.

Our inner energy body speaks to us in many ways – our intuition, our hunches, our inner voice, our simply knowing.  Notice your feelings. Learn to interpret them. Then go beyond that. Learn to interpret those subtle nudges that are messages from the all-generating void.  

I regularly experience strong feelings, unexpected insights, and a loud inner voice.  In addition, I purposefully explore the unseen worlds through a regular practice of shamanic journeys. It is a form of meditation that allows imaginative metaphors to give you insights, understanding, clarity, and guidance from your core all-encompassing, vibrational self. 

Your dreams will also give you a glimpse of the invisible realms. 

But in both cases, we have to interpret these subtle messages from the limitations of our body form which sees us as individual and separate. We must overcome that feeling of separateness and feel and know ourselves to be One. One energy.  One whole.  One.

Share your vibration with the world

Begin to feel and think of yourself as that core vibrating energy of the all-encompassing One Energy. You may choose to lose yourself in the steady inhale-exhale of your breath until your mind quiets and you float into nothingness. You will find the Great Void in mediation. You will experience that feeling of leaving behind your limiting body form while you journey into invisible realms, the core spiritual energy, the Great Nothingness.

Learn to keep that feeling of oneness with you

Once you have experienced your oneness with all, cultivate the practice of bringing that awareness into your body life. Perhaps it is a pause to look out the window at nature. Perhaps it is moment in which you close your eyes and release your mind and embrace pure tranquility. Find your own way to keep the awareness of  pure, all-encompassing vibrational energy in your body life.  

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Chose a form of mediation, immerse yourself in it, and begin to experience your body disappear. 
  • Experience yourself as nothingness, void.  It may have a color, it may not.  
  • Free yourself of human images that limit you and go exploring in this all-encompassing oneness. 
  • Enjoy. 
  • Repeat.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

Three Ways To Raise Your Vibration

The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

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Walk with the Wind

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Walk with the Wind

Deeper Song Insights and Applications

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

It’s much harder to walk against the wind than with it.  As long as it takes you in the direction you want to go.  In sailing, there is a technique called tacking, in which in order to go forward you must zig-zag, tack your sails in order to gradually go forward. Unless of course, you have the wind at your back. Then it is full sails ahead.  

Let’s tale about zig-zagging to catch the wind to keep going in the direction you have chosen.   

I zig and zag a lot because I love to learn, so I eagerly sign up for online class and immerse myself in the learning until I emerge with a new skill level. So learning new skills is part of walking with the wind at my back.  

The wind blows in new insights, a new awareness that makes us have to rethink our beliefs, our values, and our behavior.  In today’s world, we are being asked to raise our sights and raise our vibration and aspire to a higher purpose.  What wind will get you there?  What wind do you need to catch?

The Wind of Opportunity is interesting.  What has shown up to nudge you, to tempt you’ to invite you?

My new emphasis on podcasts is bringing new people into the Deeper Song Community. As much as I want to sail into deeper waters, I need to balance that desire with information that allows people to learn how to figure out there destinations and learn how to set their sails to get there. 

The path to “there” is seldom a straight one.  But we do need to keep an eye on our desired destination. 

What if you are becalmed if no wind seems to be coming your way?

Use that time to change our course, to explore possible new destinations and see how they resonate with where you are and where you want to be.  

You may have veto walk into the wind.  Just do it.  Just lower your shoulders and keep walking with all the determination you can muster.   Periodically check to make certain you are going in the right direction.  Change course slightly or a lot depending on how things are going. 

Walk with the wind.  Raise your sails and enjoy the ride!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am prepared to allow the wind to move into deeper service.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Where do you have the wind at your back in your life right now?
  • Where in your life are you walking against the wind?
  • Where do you want ho go?
  • Shift your sails to take advantage of the winds of change.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

An Exploration of the Unseen World

“She is planted in his own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in.”  –  Stephen Mitchell, Second Book of Tao

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a  cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode, we consider how we can stand steady in our own truth.

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Inner Work

WHAT IS THE HIGHEST CALLING OF YOUR HEART?

John Lewis asked us to “answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.” 

I  had to stop to look at what the highest calling of my heart is. 

I care deeply about the well-being of animals.  I’m a vegan.  I cannot watch the heart-wrenching ads of mistreated animals that ask us to give money to the shelters. 

The state of negativity in humanity feels overwhelming to me.  I want there to be peace and compassion and I continue to look for energetic ways to help that evolve.  

The highest calling of my heart – what is it.  I know where my head is taking me, I know what experiences make my heart sing.  They are all inner world work, inner wold lessons, inner world guidance.  My heart is calling me within and I wonder at my role in the “without.”

I can hold High Watch for the Planet (How to Hold High Watch for the Planet.) I can send energy to situations and people.  But most of all I can work to raise my vibration and hold my light high so others can see it and recognize it in themselves.  

Finding the highest calling of our hearts requires us to do some introspection.  What is important?  Who is important? What is our role?

On one level I know my highest calling is to explore the Unseen World and bring back the insights I am given. 

All I know to do I to move more deeply within and listen with an open heart.   Perhaps I am in fact, doing the highest calling of my heart

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Outer Work

ARE YOU IN YOUR OWN HUSTLE?

On “The view”, Carrie Washington said she was “In her own hustle.”  She had just won four Emmys for producing and directing.  I had never heard the term hustle used that way but it’s a fun one.  I stopped to think what my hustle was and if by any chance I was in it.

Alignment came to mind as a key component to hustle.  Alignment with what you believe, where your passion is and the skill sets you have to create it.  

That’s a lot of criteria.  

Conscious choices are another important element to a hustle. There are many opportunities to make a difference in this changing world.  What criteria are you using to chart your path?  A year ago I thought I would go more deeply into sound healing.  Raising your vibration is huge but sound healing is just one approach that I incorporate. It is only a step in my overarching goal to explore the Unseen World.

Passion is the fuel of a hustle.  My core passion is to learn.  So my job is to make certain my passion is aligned with what allows me to serve where I am called to serve, with the gifts I am to offer, as well prepared as I can make them. 

What skill sets do you use in your hustle? Begin with the skills you know you have and expand those.  I’m a really good organizer so at the core of what I do is to organize ideas in a meaningful and impactful manner so others can absorb them.  

Hustle means to “move unceremoniously in a specific direction.”  Love that.  Unceremoniously. Just doing it.  Just knowing it is yours to do and going for it.  

What is calling to you that you need to answer?  Listen and you will hear.  Then go do it.  How will you “get into your own hustle”?

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YOUR SACRED LIVELIHOOD

Sacred Livelihood.  It’s a phrase I heard recently and it repositions how I think of “work.”We have each been given unique gifts with which to earn our sacred livelihood.  

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” – Kahlil Gibran

Do you work with joy?  Joy at what you do? Joy with the whole world?  Joy for who you serve?

Since we currently seem to be offered an opportunity to rethink our sacred livelihood and reposition ourselves, how do you want to make your love visible?

Creating podcasts instead of posts has upped how I feel about my work. I love my work and I love it even more with the podcast format.  I have a blessing I say before recording, a blessing before editing, and a blessing before posting it, each with the intent of lifting spirits and deepening awareness of those who hear its.  And then I let it go — as vibration into the world. It is freeing and I trust those who are to hear will find it. 

The work is the same, the different form has made a difference in how I feel about its reach. 

Do you simply need to change the form of your work in order to experience it as sacred?

A person with a strong musical background may turn to be a sound healer.  I have turned to my native flutes and drums to heal myself and the world. 

What gifts do you have you might choose to repurpose?

A hobby may turn into a sacred livelihood.  I write really unusual poems but they deeply touch my heart and move me forward. 

I have often found myself far down a path because I want to know more about it for myself. 

Sacred Livelihood.  Think on that.  What is your sacred livelihood?

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THE DEEP COMPLIMENT

A new member of the Deeper Song Community gave me a deep compliment.  In fact, she gave me several.  And they were important in that they give me insights into why my work was valuable to her How it was in service.  That’s what I mean by a Deep Compliment.  

Everyone appreciates a comment on their work because when it is detailed it lets them know what is resonating and helps them do a better job of meeting the needs of the people they serve.  

For instance, this new friend said she was going to keep reading back over my past posts.  So I have added a new Curated Post/Podcast section to this newsletter to bring forward some of the topics I have already explored that are needed when people are in earlier stages of this work.

A few friends sent me specific, positive comments when I started doing podcasts again that not only encouraged me but helped me make podcasts a larger part of my offerings. 

See how this works – a deep compliment tells the recipient why they made a difference or how.  

And even if you think that a well-known person has heard it before, say it anyway.  She/he will look for and listen to growing needs or what is working and do more of that.  You serve as a running fork we/they can tune our offering to.

Who will you offer a deep compliment to this week?

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CHANGE AND THE POWER OF YOUR INNER VOICE

We are constantly changing, constantly needing to make aware choices.  The easiest way to do that is to build up your relationship with your inner voice, that inner guide who sees and knows more than your planetary being does and can guide you.  

It may begin as a knowing, intuition, or even s distinct word. The more you listen the more you hear. 

As I move more deeply into the direction I am going and use podcasts to deliver them my inner voice is practically dancing a jig!  It is flooding me with ideas and insights to explore and share.  

When you are on the right track, all sorts of powerful inner help shows up 

Listen to your inner voice.  It will guide you on what you are to do and what you are to leave behind.  The more you listen the more you hear. 

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NURTURE THE STILLNESS IN YOUR LIFE

That was the message in a shamanic journey I took this week – Nurture the Stillness in your life.  Now I’m a woman with a very active mind so the idea of stillness made me stop – and well – think. When do I experience stillness?  Where do I experience stillness? If I want more stillness how do I make room for that? How do I invite it in?

I had more questions than answers.  But I’ve been thinking about what I can do to cultivate more stillness in my life. 

It has to do with being present.  I play my flutes in response to the moment of the branches on the weeping birch tree outside my window.  I play to the setting sun reflecting on its trunk. Each morning I open my window and play to – the world.  I could surround that with more stillness – before beginning, and after completing it.  I think it is going to ask me to do some deep listening. 

I could create a definite pause for stilling in my spiritual practice I am trying to establish each afternoon.  Tt would include transcendental meditation, perhaps a ceremony or ritual I make up to honor the day so far, or what I have done in the way of creating a new offering or…there are many possibilities  I just need to do it. 

I have a podcast script in progress about the still point. It is a process so perhaps I will record that next. The still point is the gateway to the unseen world.  What kind of ceremony or spiritual time, or meditative practice can I create and put into place that will encourage me to move into stillness for a period each day? 

I know it will be very healing. What will you choose to do? 

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

There are 500 people in my flute class from all over the world.  There are 300 people from all over the world in my shamanic circle class.  I don’t know many of them, in fact very few, but we are drawn together in a common pursuit, a common interest. And we cover the planet with our raised vibration.  

That’s how the world is going to change – people of like raised vibration finding each other online and raising our vibration together.  

I have many sacred surfaces in my home.  One of them holds a statue of Quan Yin, pouring the waters of compassion over the wold. At her feet is my soft hug-a-planet. She is in place day and night blessing the world.

I have three Quan Ying statues and five Buddha statues.  It would be good if I gave each of them a purpose, a task if you will, to help heal the world  I’ll have to think about that.  

I continually work to increase my vibration and send it out every day. In a journey I was told to offer a healing ceremony to the land I live on and that it would radiate forward and backward to heal the future and the past.   I am doing that. 

Pick a few actions that appeal to you, that call to you and put them regularly in our life.  Periodically change and rearrange them  Perhaps at the Solstice and Equinox, reevaluate what you are doing and how it’s working.

The key is to notice the changes your actions are creating in your and select what you want to continue.

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DO IT ENOUGH TO OWN IT

Last year when I spent a lot of hours on The Shift Network Sound Healing Summit. I bought tuning forks and I used them for a while.  Then I stopped. I go them from Dr. John Beaulieu biosonics.com and in this year’s summit, he said we only need two tuning forks – the C and the G and we are to use them several times a day. I also had gotten the Otto Tuner to address acupressure positions. I moved my turning forks closer to the chair that I will use them in.  He said intention is very important.  So I have begun a more focused healing effort with my tuning forks. 

I have to find time for all of this.  I keep leaving things behind and I don’t want to lose them. I also want to give myself time to experience the results.  I’m looking at 4 PM to play my drums, dance to some music I found, play my flutes, and do the Transcendental Meditation I want to return to. 

What do you want to bring back into your spiritual practice and where will you put it in your day?

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FOUNDATIONAL INSIGHTS FROM THE PAST

New Feature: A short curation of posts and podcasts from the past:

STAND IN YOUR LIGHT

Follow Your Personal Drumbeat 

Build on the Distance You Have Come 

Does Your Path Have a Heart? 

Start Where You Stand

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CARA’S CORNER

KNOW YOUR CALLING

They all called to me at the time.  But I have so many varieties of instruments that some sit neglected. It would have been good if I had been more discerning. However, they excited me at the time and they all served a purpose.  I got out my small Tibetan Singing Bowl l after hearing a singing bowl master speak on the Healing Sound Summit.  It spoke eloquently to me and I was grateful for its presence.  As did the Tingsha (cymbals) w which I was using each day with the intention to clear and protect my home. 

Now I’m sitting here at my desk surrounded by crystals and flutes and gong and stained glass suncatchers hanging int he window and a whole range of items nearby I used to use more regularly.  I have to make room to explore those wondrous gifts more regular  

Every speaker I heard talked about how vibration affects our bodies.  We are made up of a lot of water, so just as a light breeze makes ripples in the waters and storms make huge waves, we, through the use of vibration, have a way to balance and heal our bodies.  

Is there a sound that calls to you? Is there e rhythm that resonated? How do you feel after singing those tones, those rhythms, those sounds?   Notice and keep exploring the ones that resonate more. 

Notice how our body feels after you use a sound instrument.  Whether it is a drum, or a penny whistle or pan flute, notice where it resonates in your boat and how your body feels when you stop.  I realize that as I write this I am tingling all ower.  Today I had a flute class, I got out my tuning forks again, and I played my Timgsha and my Himalayan bowl.   Tomorrow will be the drums.  

You don’t need to be a full orchestra.  Listen to the sounds of instruments and notice what resonates.  I have a Kalimba Thumb Piano that I use every day.  It is an incredibly soothing way to start m day.   If you have a collection of sound friends, send some time with each one and ask how it wants to be in service.  Then do that.

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A DEEPER SONG

“Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.”  – Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

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